It’s Always Advisable To Have A Backup Party Plan

News worth repeating, now that your Giant hangover should be gone by now:
• Amani Toomer will have to go somewhere else for fun, now that the Pats’ victory parties are off.

• Although he watched from somewhere other than his team’s sideline, Jeremy Shockey sooth-sees a Giants repeat - as stated in a FHM spread from […]

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Flash: Bob Knight Resigns As Texas Tech Coach

KCBD-TV in Lubbock is reporting that NewsChannel 11 has just learned that Texas Tech Basketball Coach Bob Knight has resigned effective immediately. We’re told Assistant Coach Pat Knight will take over. The announcement comes just two days before Tech’s next basketball game which is Wednesday against Baylor in Waco. It also comes less than three […]

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Maryland Basketball Is Already On The Bubble

When the women’s basketball highlights hit, we’re usually up to get some vacuuming done, so we had no idea that apparently the head coach of the women’s basketball team at Maryland, Brenda Frese, is eight months pregnant and still coaching.

(Someone somewhere is somehow making this sexual)
She’s got twins on the way, hasn’t missed a practice […]

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Interviews: Which Has A Higher Squirm Quotient?

Tiki Barber’s postgame interviews with the Giants:

Or Chris Myers’ post game interview with Bill Belichick:

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Cuban Takes Issue With Shinn & Co.’s Bottom Line

How many interviews have you read that had Mark Cuban working out on the Stairmaster during the interview? It seems like it’s every other one. Cuban has probably shed a metric ton of body fat during his visits with the media over the years. And the light-headedness incurred by his sharply increased heart rate no […]

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“Laugh In” DVDs Soon To Be Flying Out The Door

Yeah, we know some people who picked the Giants to win. But invariably, those predictions still had the game above the over. In charting the abyss that is NFL analyst and celebrity Super Bowl prognostications, we could only find one person who got the game remotely correct, at least score-wise.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you, […]

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Mrs. Don Mattingly Is Having Trouble Letting Go

WALK OFF BALK (via THE BIG LEAD), has the news of Don Mattingly’s ex-wife getting drunk and going nuts at Donny Ballgame’s abode last week.

No, we didn’t get that shot mixed up with the Jay-Johnstone-on-crack one*.
* He isn’t on crack.

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Space Age Technology Kills Montana’s Secret Life

Remember the report that Joe Montana bugged out after having his photo snapped at a Super Bowl party?

Arash Markazi of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, in his breakdown of every single Super Bowl party, has this followup from the “Madden Bowl” party last week:
“Joe Montana, Dwight Clark and Chris Berman sitting in a VIP booth with a bevy […]

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Mick Gives SB Ticks To Random FBR Father-Son

The EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE has one of the feel-good stories of the day involving Phil Mickelson. While playing the FBR Open in Phoenix on Sunday, Mickelson gave a father and his son tickets to the Super Bowl. The two were following Mickelson’s round.

Call it the cynic in us, but it is interesting to note […]

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Did Tom Petty Sneak In Phallic Refererence @ SB?

Drew Curtis of Fark.com unearths a link to SEATTLE WEEKLY, which has a photo of Tom Petty’s stage set at the Super Bowl last night - just as the show began:

An amusing coincidence, or purposeful on Petty’s part(s)? Either way, it’s a nice follow-up to Prince’s “demonschlong“ last year.

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